The theme of this year’s Tony Awards opening number was the current overwhelming number of songs on Broadway stages from the popular musical canon. Well, dangit, that’s what I was going to say! But it’s more than just this year’s crop. While leaving American Idiot a few weeks ago, I walked through Times Square and looked …

Immediately following last year’s Tony Awards, the Admin Committee decided to strike the “Special Theatrical Event” Tony from the list of trophies that it would hand out in the future. The Special Event kudos was created following the bizarre Best Musical win in 2000 for Susan Stroman’s dance piece, Contact, which lacked an original score …